Dave Ryan

NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust

“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.”

How disgraceful.

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I've just watched a YouTube video about him. He really is the worstest.

Maybe this is the only universe, but maybe there's a universe just over there, where Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix are still alive.
It's good to try to imagine that universe

I've been opposed to the concept of punishment for quite a few decades now.
I regret nothing.
Whoever you are, I don't want to hurt you.

The Peter Pan of the amphibian world! 🙂

Ideologically, they're going to really struggle with that last one.

A million seconds ago was a week ago last Monday. A trillion seconds ago there are no reliable records of human civilization.

Nuclear submarines are fission ships

Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?

When I was younger, there were things that others found easy, but I found impossible.
There were also things that I found easy and others found impossible.
Like talking to girls and differential calculus.
Nowadays it's still true, but the specific examples are different.

Isomorphic serendipity

Capitalism:
'Nice minuscule oasis of liveability in a vast lifeless nothing you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.'

Taking his title isn't enough. It needs to be replaced by a recognisably similar word with a more appropriate meaning.
Ponce.

This.

The more I find out about the Nobel Peace Prize winner, the more uncomfortable I get

Metaphor is the accelerator, logic is the brake, desire is the steering wheel

Occam killed himself with a sharp edge. Move on.

Kind of good, kind of horrific, depending on which numbers you're looking at

Hardly anybody knows Gary Portnoy's name.
Who says Americans don't do irony?

AI is a bit like God, insofar as it's too big and complicated for anyone to really understand.
It's different from God insofar as it will affect us all whether we believe in it or not.

I feel like there might have been clues in the nature of capitalism,that the eventual winner wasn't going to be the lovely helpful type

I'm genuinely worried that some of the US YouTubers I watch are going to start disappearing

Classic fash

The rate of decline might slow a bit

Are you Josh Kerr?

Survivor bias.
Let's hear the voices of the silent majority.
I played Lotto for 40 years and won nothing. Ask me how.
My business idea lost out to someone with more resources. It was probably my fault.

These are not people with legitimate concerns, and they should not be appeased.

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

Disappearing people :(

The roof of your mouth is really more of a ceiling, isn't it?